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E. A. LEHMANN.

SHIRT.

No. 357,325. Patented Feb. 8, 1887.

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UNITED v STATES PATENT O ICE.

EMIL A. LEHMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,325, dated February 8, 1887.

Serial No. 194,574. (No model.)

To all whom it mm concern:

Be it known that EMIL A. LEHMANN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

The attaching of shirtcufi's to the wriststuds of shirts is generally connected with some difficulty, owing to the stiffening imparted to the cuffs by the starching and ironing. Various devices have been proposed to facilitate the connection of the cuffs with the sleeves, which are, however, objectionable as they are detachable and do not form a part of the shirt itself.

The object of this invention-is to furnish a shirt with a cuff-holding device, by which not only the attaching and detaching of the cuffs are greatly facilitated,but also the position of the cuffs on the sleeves readily adjusted as required by the length of sleeve or size of the cuff, so that the cuffs do not unnecessarily protrude beyond the coat-sleeves.

The invention consists of a shirt, the sleeves of which are provided, in line with the wristopening, with a tab, having'one or more but ton-holes, that is attached to a stud of the cuff or to a button back of the wrist-opening of the sleeve when it is desired not to use the cuffholding tab.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a shirt sleeve with my improved cuff-holding tab. Fig. 2 is also a side view showing the cuff adjusted higher up on the sleeve than in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is avertical longitudinal section on line mac, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents the sleeve of ashirt, to the wrist-opening ofwhichis applied a tab, B, having one or more button-holes, a, which tab is attached to the re-en forced edge of the wrist-opening. The tabB is of such a length that it extends to orbeyond the wriststud of the sleeve. When not in use, the tab B may be folded back in opposite direction and attached to a button, b, above the wristopening of the shirt, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3. In this position the tab is entirely out of the way when it is not desired to be used. WVhen the cuff is to be attached, the sleeve-buttons are first placedin the cuffs,and then plain studs, d, passed through the buttonholes at the opposite side of the cuffs. The button-hole of the tab B is then attached to the stud of the-cuff, as shown in Fig. 1.

hen it. is desired to adjust the cuff on the sleeve so that it is supported higher or lower thereon, and extended more or less beyond the sleeve of the coat, the tab B is provided with several button-holes, so that by folding the end of the tab and applying the folded tab to the rear stud, d, of the cuff the latter is set higher on the sleeve, as shown in Fig. 2-. In this po sition a cheap and convenient cuffholding device is furnished, that forms a permanent part of the shirt, and by which cuffs can be quickly and conveniently attached to the sleeves and adjusted within certain limits on the same.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 'A shirt the sleeves of which are each provided with a placket having a re-enforce, and, furthermore, provided with a tab attached to the outside of the sleeves above the wristband, the free ends of the tabs being adapted to lap over the said wristband, one or more buttonholes being providedin the free end of the tab, and a button being fastened at the upper end of the re-enforce of the placket-opening of the EMIL A. LEHMANN.

Witnesses.

PAUL GOEPEL, MARTIN PETRY. 

